The French & Indian War, or the Seven Years' War
I have always been drawn to the first world war, the one that began in a remote glen in southwestern Pennsylvania in 1754 and by its end changed the look of the world in 1763. It sets up the American War of Independence, the decades of war between Britain and France -- in many ways, the modern age itself. For twenty years I attended as a vendor the annual seminar of the Braddock Road Preservation Association, and it educated and entertained me with some of the best scholars in the field. On this page I will offer new books and classics, dvds and audiobooks, and any other worthy items of the 18th century that relate to the "wilderness war."
Daniel Boone: His Own Story
Daniel Boone: His Own Story
The adventures of Daniel Boone, the Kentucky rifleman was first published by Appleton in 1844.; written in the form of an autobiography of Boone by Filson and first published as an appendix to Filson's Discovery, settlement, and present state of Kentucke (1784, 1st ed.)
First published in the early 1800s, this true-life account set the record straight on the mythic Daniel Boone and established him as an American hero.